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:: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 :: You have to read this. It will be hard, but you should read it...and then share it with your family.BLACKFIVE: Taking Chance Home Investigative Report:: Friday, April 23, 2004 :: Add this voice to the national marriage debate.The Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness--defined as "the philosophy and practice of loving or relating intimately to more than one other person at a time with honesty and integrity"--says that polyamory is a good solution for those who can't abide monogamy but don't want to cheat. Great coverage of the petition against the FCC's Golden Globe ruling. But what is truly inspiring is this little piece at the end of the column::: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 :: :: Monday, April 19, 2004 :: No one is safe until the sponsors and perpetrators of evil have been disarmed or destroyed.:: Friday, April 16, 2004 ::Jordanian authorities have seized cars filled with explosives and weapons, and arrested several suspected terrorists in recent days. MWUAHHHHAHAHAHAH!:: Thursday, April 15, 2004 ::The CIA says the voice on that audio tape probably is Osama. Here's an idea. Say it isn't Osama. Challenge him. Say that Osama is suffering from a special strain of syphilis usually found only in camels and now Osama can only spit, grunt and bray. Maybe it will flush him out. Even more anti-PCfallout from the 9/11 commission hearings."We had testimony a couple of months ago from the past president of United, and current president of American Airlines that kind of shocked us all," Lehman told me. "They said under oath that indeed the Department of Transportation continued to fine any airline that was caught having more than two people of the same ethnic persuasion in a secondary line for line for questioning, including and especially, two Arabs." Mansoor Ijazhas even more analysis on 9/11 Commission and pre-9/11 priorities regarding the handling of one Osama bin Laden. More on the melt-down of the 9/11 commission from Andrew C. McCarthy over at N.R.O. You must read this from Iraq. An interesting observation on the 9/11 commission and the particular role of Richard ben Veniste in this soap-opera.Fifty years from now, the conspiracy theorists will be wondering what ben Veniste set out to hide and whether he accomplished his mission. Too late to change that now, but speculation about ben Veniste's cover-ups will come to rival the cottage industry surrounding Dallas. A great fate for one of prosecutors of Watergate. The 9/11 comission has a serious credibility problem.OpinionJournal - Featured Articlethe White House could hardly be blamed if it decided to cease cooperation with the 9/11 Commission pending Ms. Gorelick's resignation and her testimony under oath as a witness into the mind of the Reno Justice Department. What exactly was the purpose of the wall? More bad news for the Kerry campaign. It is hard for me to believe that Oliver Stone is really this stupid.:: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 ::ALB: Now, when you were talking to the prisoners who tried to hijack a plane, one told you he was a fisherman, and you said, "Why then didn't you take a boat?" Why did you ask that? Hmmmmm? Maybe you should read what this man has to say.my primary objection isn't the totalitarian potential of national IDs, nor the likelihood that they'll create a whole immense new class of social and economic dislocations. Nor is it the opportunities they will create for colossal boondoggles by government contractors. My objection to the national ID card, at least for the purposes of this essay, is much simpler: This guy isn't any better.WorldNetDaily: Prof says 'no proof' Muslims behind 9-11There is "no conclusive proof" Arabs and Muslims were behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and the U.S. itself may be responsible, asserts an Egyptian professor at American University of Cairo. Read this and watch the movies.They're gonna say some Palestinian being too radical -- well, you haven't seen radicalism yet!" Andy Rooney has outlived his mind.Treating soldiers fighting their war as brave heroes is an old civilian trick designed to keep the soldiers at it. But you can be sure our soldiers in Iraq are not all brave heroes. … There are many reasons to read James Taranto's Best of the Web Today. Any one of them would be worth a visit, but today I can count at least 6.:: Monday, April 12, 2004 :: Another option for dealing with hostage situations from James S. Robbinson on National Review Online The winds of change are blowing again...and not always in a favorable direction.First Amendment arguments are losing ground to antidiscrimination laws in many areas, and once stalwart free-speech groups, like the American Civil Liberties Union, have mostly gone over to the other side. An unlikely split has occurred. In the interest of fighting bias, liberal groups reliably promote laws that limit First Amendment principles. The best defenders of free speech and freedom of religion are no longer on the left. They are found on the right. There is a lot of powerful stuff up at Winds of Change.NET: Dan's Winds of War: 2004-12-04:: Thursday, April 08, 2004 :: Condi rocks!FOXNews.com - Politics - Raw Data: Full Hearing Transcript:: Friday, April 02, 2004 ::After the September 11th attacks, our nation faced hard choices: We could fight a narrow war against Al Qaida and the Taliban, or we could fight a broad war against a global menace. We could seek a narrow victory, or we could work for a lasting peace and a better world. news like this will drive John Kerry and his pals NUTS!"Any way you slice it, the world is creating or transferring more jobs to the U.S. than we are doing to the rest of the world," said Daniel T. Griswold, a trade specialist at the Cato Institute, a research organization in Washington.
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